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  • Lightbeam goes virtual!

    Lightbeam goes virtual!

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    Here is a gif from my latest aframe experiments for Lightbeam. For Mozfest 2017, I had submitted the following proposal – ‘Lightbeam, an immersive experience‘. While the proposal is still being reviewed, I have been experimenting with Aframe and the above gif is an initial proof of concept 🙂 Here is the excerpt from the proposal: Read more

  • Lightbeam – All the Math!

    Lightbeam – All the Math!

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    In this post I shall discuss all (most of) the math involved in the visualisations. A quick recall: Lightbeam is now responsive and fully interactive. Tooltips The math behind tooltips is the sequel to my blog post Lightbeam – Tooltips (SVG). Read this blog post to understand Lightbeam’s migration from SVG to Canvas. Ignore the transforms Read more

  • WebRTC – a detailed history

    WebRTC – a detailed history

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    The Past The need to connect virtually and have video conferences and communications on the web has been around for a while. In the past, Flash was one of the popular ways to achieve this. The alternate to this was plug-ins or an installable application on the PC. From a user’s perspective, all these methods Read more

  • Web of Things – Peer to Peer Web

    Web of Things – Peer to Peer Web

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    At the end of this month, I am attending the Web Summer Camp at Rovinj, Croatia and I would be running a half-day workshop on 01.09.2017 about Web of Things – Peer to Peer Web. Here is a little abstract about the workshop: The web today is a growing universe. Over the years, web technologies Read more

  • Lightbeam updates

    Lightbeam updates

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    Here are two quick updates about Lightbeam because I can’t contain the excitement to myself. Lightbeam goes responsive, yayyyyy!!! Responsive UI I am extremely happy for achieving this today. Making the UI responsive was there in our to-dos, but this one got done today accidentally in an attempt to answer few of the comments on Read more

  • Lightbeam – SVG to Canvas

    Lightbeam – SVG to Canvas

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    SVG is the preferred choice for D3. But when you expect a lot of DOM nodes (yes, in the case of Lightbeam) you need to start worrying about the DOM performance and have to take the call to step out of the SVG comfort zone. We chose Canvas over SVG for Lightbeam 2.0! In this Read more

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